PTSD, Drug Addiction, and More Caller Questions from April 16, 2025
Topics: Community, PTSD, Guilt, Adult Children, Boundaries, Affairs, Disclosure, Drug Addiction
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jacqui Mack-Harris
Caller Questions & More:
1. Dr. Alice demonstrates, though a personal story, the importance of building a support community well in advance of when you would need their help.
2. Where can I find a counselor or group that understands the pressure of living with my husband’s PTSD?
3. I feel guilty when I go on trips and my husband can’t because he is disabled from a prescription drug addiction.
4. Our adopted daughter has lived an irresponsible life and has health problems; how do we draw the line?
5. What can we tell our friend whose husband was unfaithful and she feels she needs to hear the whole story before attending Restore? She is also grieving her son who just died from drug addiction.
6. What book can I give my adult son who turns to cocaine to deal with social anxiety? It gives him suicidal ideation.
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Take Your Life Back
Intimate Deception
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